Another small favor, the ending explained

One of the greatest revelations in that intricate juniper which is A small favor (the 2018 thriller deliberately exaggerated of Paul Feig with Anna Kendrick In the role of Stephanie, a cheerful mother blogger who turns into an amateur investigator) arrives when the protagonist discovers that the enigmatic woman from whom she is obsessed, the elegant Emily played by Blake Livelyhas an identical twin. Better still, it is a trigemine whose third sister has unfortunately died at birth, says Emily in a joke thrown there that proves to be the key to understanding Another little favorthe new sequel now streaming on Prime Videos.

Seven years after the events of the first film, Stephanie is promoting his book, The faceless blondewho tells how Emily ended up in prison for killing her father and twin sister, as well as having shot her husband Sean (Henry Golding) and to try to kill Stephanie for discovering her crimes (Stephanie also went to bed with Sean while Emily was so on to kill the aforementioned twin to pocket insurance money). But the interest in the scandal is stacked, and Stephanie would be comfortable a little inspiration for a sequel. At that precise moment, Emily sneaks into the half -life room in which Stephanie is keeping a reading and reveals not only that she has come out of jail, but also to be about to be marked by the mafia, or at least with one of her member: the Italian businessman Dante (Michele Morroneespecially known for 365 daysNetflix’s erotic thriller series). Emily demands that Stephanie will make them bridesmaid at their wedding in Capri. If he should refuse, “I will sue you ruining you,” Emily is solemnly promises.

NEW friends exchange arrows and sip cocktails, oppressed only by the alcoholic deeds of Sean, who complains that he had to accompany Nicky to the wedding (Ian Ho), the son he had with Emily. After that, a lethal dose of drugs is injected in Sean while taking a shower in his hotel room, and followed other corpses. Dante falls into a fireworks deposit that explodes shortly after marrying Emily, while an unfortunate FBI agent investigating the murders (Taylor Ortega) is stabbed. Stephanie is blamed by the murders, arrested by the local authorities and put under house arrest.

In reality, however, Stephanie is innocent. And Emily is also. Because the real Emily is actually locked up in a hotel room, while her sister Charity, believed to be dead and interpreted in turn by Lively, is alive and has passed off for Emily for almost all the time.

Before continuing, here is a reminder on Emily’s crazy family tree. Her real name is Faith McLanden and is Hope’s sister, who would have fallen into a spiral of addiction as an adult and Charity, who in theory was born dead. The mother of the girls, Margaret (who Elizabeth Perkins interprets replacing Jean Smarta change of casting that the character explains with a witty joke admitting that he had made a retouch), devotedly religious, he believes that his offspring is demonic and killed the third sister in the womb. The woman therefore closes an eye on the mistreatment that her husband reserves for Faith and Hope. In the end the sisters burn the family home and kill the father, dividing to hide from the police up to the events of A small favor.

The sequel reveals that Linda (Allison Janney), the aunt lost for some time of Emily who gave birth to the three twins, also kidnapped Charity immediately after birth and raised her secretly. Since it was raised in the shade by a furious madman who used it as a bait to defraud various men, Charity is rather underdeveloped. Lively speaks in a voice As a sexy girl In the role of a woman who grew up to brutally kill people so that mom can take their money. The latest gimmick of the unbalanced couple is to kill Emily and to frame Stephanie, in order to take over the fortunes of Dante’s family.

What Linda did not take into account is the strange fixation of Charity for the only sister still alive. In a disgusting twist that goes even beyond anything that has happened in the third season of The White LotusCharity tells Emily that she wants to give her pleasure, murmuring something about the fact that “I am one” before taking drugs and harassing her sister. It is a very embarrassing “Lively-Lively” sexual meeting that, let’s say it, wasn’t Really need to insert in this film.

Shortly thereafter, Emily and Stephanie escape their respective traps and rejoin. First, Stephanie Deride Emily, calling her «Fotti-Sorelle» (a call to the first film, where Emily He repeatedly takes, and very rightly, around Stephanie for going to bed with the half -brother). Then Emily admits that her marriage to Dante was all a staging: she had to marry him just to help him hide his secret relationship with his lover Matteo Bartolo (Lorenzo de Moor), member of a rival mafia family.

The two women are attracted to a cliff by Charity and Linda, who have a weapon aimed at the head of little Nicky. Emily takes advantage of Charity’s disturbing feelings against him, convincing his sister with another kiss to make the skin crawl to save both Nicky and Stephanie. Charity takes the hook, pushing Linda down from the cliff and inexplicably accepting to publicly take the fault of any murder and to return to prison as “Emily”.

This senseless choice (everything could be resolved with a fingerprint test, Lord!) Forces the true Emily (i.e. Faith) to laugh at the stain, while Stephanie writes his next book and grows Nicky together with his son Miles (Joshua Satinewhich for all this time has been blessedly occupied in the summer camp). In a last absurdity, we see Emily wandering through the streets of Italy, not at all traumatized by the vicissitudes just faced or by the separation from the son, wearing the perhaps more flashy dress than the costume designer Renee Ehrlich Kalfus He has ever created for these films, without even a baseball hat or a change of color for the hair to disguise himself (Deuxmoi would have discovered Emily in a second!).

As he takes his midnight walk, Emily comes across Dante’s mother, Portia (Elena Sofia Ricci), who confirms that he knows his true identity (But don’t tell me) and gives them an envelope, saying: “I have another small favor to ask you.” With two of the three live twins and the introduction of Emily’s next chapter as lieutenant of the mafia, a third film, perhaps even more disconcerting, could be safely coming. The future brothers of the various characters are notified.